POSTED // Mar 30,2012 - The Hunger Games is on track to be one of the most successful films—critically, as well as financially—of 2012, but even before it opened, caveats were being lobbed.

POSTED // Feb 10,2012 - Woo-hoo, it’s CIA action porn when Safe House finally gets going, all mysterious black SUVs and “kill the surveillance cameras” and stoic badassery all around.

POSTED // Jan 20,2012 - We’ve seen this movie before: Secret agent/gun for hire/covert badass gets burned. Who did it? The bad guys? The colleagues? The boss? Our Hero has to work hard and fast to pull his own ass out of a fire

POSTED // Jan 9,2012 - It’s the most wonderful time of the year—when we movie lovers try to second-guess the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

POSTED // Jan 6,2012 - I haven’t read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carré’s iconic novel of Cold War espionage and—if this sleek, elegant film has it right—repressed male emotion.

POSTED // Nov 4,2011 - For a critic, there are few pleasures more satisfying than ripping into a bad movie. But one of those few is discovering that a film that you were expecting to hate

POSTED // Oct 21,2011 - There are luscious possibilities in the notion of a gearpunk Three Musketeers. This movie posits a secret hiding place in Venice in which Leonardo da Vinci hid all his plans for cool crap

POSTED // Aug 26,2011 - Hoorah! Time to start mythologizing the reign of Saddam Hussein! The Devil’s Double has arrived! Whoa, that Uday Hussein was a psycho, huh?

POSTED // Jul 12,2011 - Did you miss Beastly and Red Riding Hood at your local multiplex this winter? Chances are you did ... but be on the lookout for many more flicks just like them.

POSTED // Apr 29,2011 - With the exception of the appalling Tokyo Drift, the Fast & Furious movies have been packed with thrillingly staged action ...